No Actual Zombies Here!

Rating: 9/10 (29 January 2009)

To be frank, this movie scared me *BLEEP*less. I thought it would be in the same vein as the Resident Evil films, and for the most part it was. An empty city, a virus running amok, people dropping like flies every other minute: a true recipe for fright in my book. But I wish people would stop referring to this movie's creatures as zombies. And now I would like to clarify something that I don't think anyone quite believes: There are no actual zombies in this movie! The virus carriers in this film aren't really dead, despite not eating or drinking anything for weeks and spewing blood by the gallon. A true zombie is a dead body that has been reanimated by any number of off-the-wall methods, while the creatures here are still alive, the unfortunate victims of a biological accident.
Now that I've gotten that off my chest......I enjoyed this movie very much. For me, the bulk of the horror came from the realization that something like this could happen in real life. Maybe not on such a gruesome scale, but it's still inside the realm of possibility. And now I bid you all a fond farewell.